The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 83
So saying, he threw himself at her feet and held her by her robe.
Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: say, throw, hold · To what, where: Bellissima, feet, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 threw | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 threw | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 threw | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 held | cc |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 threw | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 held | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 robe | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 robe | nmod:poss |
| 15 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Bellissima not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | Bellissima | Bellissima | hand's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | hold | past | Bellissima not said here | hand | by hand's robe | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by robe=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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